KathaKhazana lets you spread the joy of reading at the comfort of your smartphone! A treasure trove for children of ages 4-12, the e-learning app consists of narrated stories, animated videos and immersive games. Unearth the treasure for a child in need. Volunteer to be a certified Katha Changemaker!

With this free EdTech app, you can take reading and learning outside the classroom and make it more enjoyable. The app’s user-friendly interface and Hindi language makes it possible for anyone to use it. With KathaKhazana, a child can:
-Read Katha’s meaningful stories, written for young Indian readers! They are packed with colourful illustrations in a child-centered design.
-Watch videos where stories come to life with captivating animations and narration, ensuring a child’s audio-visual learning.
-Play interactive story-based games that seamlessly combine learning, social justice and fun! The games urge the child to apply concepts learnt from stories.

Reading for pleasure is a treasure!
As a volunteer, you can be the storyteller for social change and
-Impart reading skills in children for children in need
-Teach children about big ideas of gender equality, diversity, and inclusivity
-Contribute to spreading digital literacy in India
-Earn a certificate at completion

KathaKhazana is Katha’s venture into technology-based pedagogy. Katha’s first storytelling app is a step towards creating a digitally literate nation. It is inspired by Katha’s core beliefs of:
-StoryPedagogyTM: Backed by three decades of research, KathaKhazana is based on Katha’s StoryPedagogyTM, with its focus on story as a creative, critical thinking tool
for learning. It promotes Active Story-Based Learning (ASBL), encouraging children to think, ask, discuss, and act.
-Each Child Teach a Child (ECTC): 50% of the 300m children in the country cannot read at grade level. Through ECTC, the one half that can read will teach the other half that cannot. So, every member of the community takes the responsibility of teaching a child to read.

About Katha
Katha is a non-profit organization that has seamlessly connected grassroots work in education, teacher-training and publishing for thirty years. We believe that by providing children with holistic, relevant books and education, and fostering in them a love of learning, they can become agents of change who can lift their families and communities out of poverty. Our innovative education model, integrally supported by our award-winning book
publishing programme, benefits over 160,000 underserved children and 1,100 teachers annually.
Our mission is to help every child realize his/her full potential through community-based quality learning; to spread the joys of reading; to reduce injustice and poverty through education; to enhance linguistic diversity and to help break down gender, social and other stereotypes through story and translation.
Download Katha Khazana mobile app now to get a child into reading. Katha Khazaana Khajana Khajaana

Awards and recognition:
-Promising Practices Award 2015 for Katha’s innovative Story Pedagogy for all grade levels.
-Padma Shri to Katha’s Founder & President Geeta Dharmarajan by the Government of India in 2012
-NGO Transparency Award 2016 by GuideStar India.
-Promising Practices Award 2015 for Katha’s innovative Story Pedagogy for all grade levels.
-Millennium Alliance Award 2013 for the I Love Reading programme, by USAID and Government of India.
-ICICI India Inclusive Award 2012, by the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth.
-North India Winner of India NGO Awards for Quality Work, Accountability and Transparency 2009, by Rockefeller Foundation and Resource Alliance, UK.
-NASDAQ Stock Market Education Award 2002.
-The Social Enterprise Laboratory Award in 2002, by Digital Partners. ”